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Robin Grebe's work over the past few years has explored the way our bodies carry experience. In compositions of solitary figures in stark surroundings, she creates worlds in which gesture and landscape reveal a story. In some of her sculptures, lean bodies stand alone among bare windblown trees and broken vessels. Other figures are entrapped in thickets of branches or have heads and hearts of tangled twigs. In each, a singular body bears the weight of a personal story and is in some way transformed by its images. While Grebe's work is sometimes dark, her figures, as they bend in a breeze, or carry within them a vision of love, can also be testaments to grace and endurance. Recently, she has been casting torsos as well as full figures and has begun to paint mythic images on them, giving a new dimension to her narratives.
Grebe is a graduate of the Tyler School of Art and has been an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts College of Art and the Pilchuck School. Grebe's pieces are included in the collections of museums nationwide including the Detroit Institute of Arts. Her work has been shown in Europe and across the United States and has three times been included in Glass Review, the annual publication of The Corning Museum of Glass. She has also been featured in New Work, Neues Glas and Glass Art Magazine.
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